From: "Rudolf Adamkovič" <rudolf@adamkovic.org>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>,
Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Searching text
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2024 01:39:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2jzfsgvch.fsf@adamkovic.org> (raw)
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Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> writes:
> I need to search for phrases like 'others contend' within a buffer, even
> when they span across multiple lines.
Me too. From my Emacs config:
Search across spaces, tabs, and newlines.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results none
(with-eval-after-load 'isearch
(setq isearch-lax-whitespace t
isearch-regexp-lax-whitespace t
search-whitespace-regexp "[ \t\r\n]+"))
#+END_SRC
Works well. Enjoy!
Rudy
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Whitehead, 1861-1947
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-03 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-03 7:14 Searching text Heime
2024-09-03 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-03 23:39 ` Rudolf Adamkovič [this message]
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